A26892:1275
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 10 › Directions for faithful serving Christ, and doing Good.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. […]. Quest. 8. But it is not possible for every man presently to know all his duty and to avoid all1 […]: Knowledge must be got in time: All men are ignorant in many things: should […] in the mean time follow my Conscience?
§. 〈…〉. Quest. 8. But it is not possible for every man presently to know all his duty and to avoid all1 〈…〉: Knowledge must be got in time: All men are ignorant in many things: should 〈…〉 in the mean time follow my Conscience?
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Answ. 1. Your ignorance is culpable or not culpable. If it be not culpable, the thing which you1 […] of is not your duty. If culpable (which is the case supposed) as you brought your self in •••• difficulty of knowing, so it will remain your sin till it be cured; and one sin will not war[…]. And all that time you are under a double command, the one is to Know (and use the […] Knowledge) and the other is to do the thing commanded. So that how long soever you ••main i[…] you remain in sin, and are not under an obligation to follow your error, but first to K••w and then to D• the contrary duty. 2. And as long as you keep your self in a necessity, or way •f […], you must call it sin as it is, and not call it duty: It is not your duty to choose a […] a greater, but to refuse and avoid both the lesser and the greater: And if you say, [ […] ] yet remember that it is only your sin that is your impotency, or your impotency is […]: But it is true that you are most obliged to avoid the greatest sin: Therefore all that re[…] in the resolving, of all such cases is but to now of two sins which is the greatest.